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Title: Waiting to Exhale
Author: Terry McMillan
Translator:
Audiobook Narrator: Terry McMillan
Series Name:
Character First/Last/Nickname: Savannah "Vannah", Bernadine "Bernie", Robin, Gloria "Glo"


Colors: red, orange, pink, green, purple, blue, grey, brown, black, white, silver, gold
Item on cover: Abstract drawing of 4 women in neon colors
Cover: Black
Title color: Hot pink
Author color: Teal

Bookcover:
Title: The House of Grey - Volume 1
Author: Collin Earl
Pages: 150
Task: WAT - grey Color is in Title
Characters: Monson, Molly, Taris, Casey, Artorius (Arthur), Coach Able, Mr. Gatt, Kylie, Damion, Derek

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Title: Zombies Vs. Unicorns
Author: Holly Black, Garth Nix, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Naomi Novik, Carrie Ryan, Margo Lanagan, Maureen Johnson, Diana Peterfreund, Scott Westerfeld, Meg Cabot, Cassandra Clare, Kathleen Duey, Libba Bray, Justine Larbalestier
Pages: 416
Series: N/A
Finished: 8/14
Rating: 4 stars
Narrator: N/A
Characters: Jack, Grayson, Alison, Belcazar, Otto Penzler, Iza, Beihito, Manny Foyer, Joan Vinegar, Franklin, Sophie, Aidan, Yves, Marissa, Katey, Wendy, Summer, Dr. Bill, Sammy, Allison, Kalyn, James, Duke Grayson, Adele, Jeff, Tahmina "Mina" Hassani, Zeke, Steve Konig, Javier Ramirez, Elizabeth "Liz" Freekander, Alecia, Jeremy, Douglas "Spank" Waller, Ted, Evan, Kate

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Bookcover:
Title: Curious Minds
Series: Knight and Moon
Author:Janet Evanovich
Pages:336
Date Read:8/14/16
My Rating:5 stars
Characters: Riley, Emerson, Myra, Werner, Vernon, Irene, Hans, Gunter, Xandy, Bertrand
Cover Text: blue/white
Cover Items: none
Colors in text: sorry, can't search text at this time. Book will be released on the 16th.

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Title: The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life
Author: Hal Elrod
Pages: 127
Series: N/A
Finished: 8/14
Rating: 2.5 stars
Narrator: Rob Actis
Characters: non-fiction self help type book, doesn't really have characters. Just the authors perspective.

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Z by Larissa Ione
Date Read: 8/4/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Demonica
Pages: 154

Characters:
Zhubaal
Vex
Azagoth
Frank

Colors found in text:
red, green, purple, blue, brown, black, white, grey, gold and silver.

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April by Audrey Carlan,Summer Morton (Narrator)
Date Read: 8/7/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Calendar girl
Pages: 100

Characters:
Mia Saunders
Gin
Wes
Mason “Mace”
Rachel Denton


Colors found in text:
Red, pink, green, blue, brown, black, white, grey snd gold

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Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione, Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)
Date Read:8/7/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Demonica
Pages: 389

Characters:
Shade
Tayla Mancuso
Eidolon
Wraith
Kynan Morgan
Gemella
Luc
Nancy Allen

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May by Audrey Carlan,Summer Morton (Narrator)
Date Read: 8/8/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Calendar girl
Pages:100

Characters:
Tai Niko
Mia Saunders
Gin
Angel D’Amico

Colors found in text:
Red, pink, green, purple, blue, brown, black, white, grey, gold.

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June by Audrey Carlan,Summer Morton (Narrator)
Date Read: 8/8/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Calendar girl
Pages: 115

Characters:
Warren Shipley
Mason “Mace”
Rachel Denton
Mia Saunders

Colors found in text:
Red, pink, green, blue, brown, black, white, grey, gold and silver.

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July by Audrey Carlan, Summer Morton (Narrator)
Date Read: 8/8/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Calendar girl
Pages: 111

Characters:
Anton Santiago or Latin Lov-ah
Wes

Colors found in text:
Red, pink, green, blue, brown, black, white, gold and silver.

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August by Audrey Carlan, Summer Morton (Narrator)
Date Read: 8/9/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Calendar girl
Pages: 112

Characters:
Jackson

Colors found in text:
Red, pink, green, blue, brown, black, white, grey, gold and silver.

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September by Audrey Carlan,Summer Morton (Narrator)
Date Read: 8/9/16
My Rating: 5 stars
Series: Calendar girl
Pages: 115

Characters:
Blaine
Wes
Gin

Colors found in text:
Red, pink, green, purple, blue, brown, black, white, gold.

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October by Audrey Carlan, Summer Morton (Narrator)
Date Read: 8/10/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Calendar girl
Pages: 113

Characters:
Drew Hoffman
Wes

Colors found in text:
Red, pink, green, purple, blue, brown, black, white, grey, gold and silver.

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November by Audrey Carlan,Summer Morton (Narrator)
Date Read: 8/10/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Calendar girl
Pages: 119

Characters:
Drew Hoffman
Wes
Anton Santiago or Latin Lov-ah
Rachel Denton
Gin

Colors found in text:
Red, pink, green, purple, blue, brown, black, white, gold and silver.

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Cinderella by May Sage
Date Read: 8/11/16
My Rating: 4 stars
Series: Not Quite the Fairy Tale
Pages: 260

Characters:
Ella
Daniel Franko Phillipe Del Luz
Alessandro

White Cat by Holly Black
Series: Curse Workers
Narrator: Jesse Eisenberg
Pages: 310
Rating: 2.5 stars
Characters: Cassel Sharpe, Sam Yu, Daneca Wasserman, Lila Zacharov, Barron Sharpe, Philip Sharpe, Ivan Zacharov, Anton, Maura, Ms. Northcutt, Mr. Valerio, Rahul Pathak, Jeremey Fletcher-Fiske, Greg Harmsford
Letters: W (title), H, B (author), C (series), J, E (narrator), A, C, D, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, P, R, S, V, W, Y, Z (characters)
Task: White in title

Colors: all
Red, Orange, Gold: "...an enormous bird of red and orange and gold flies in front of a tree covered in what look like cabbages..." (pg. 191)
Pink and White: "The white cat stands not three feet from me, pink tongue licking her sharp teeth." (65)
Blue and Green: "She had wooly blond hair, one blue eye and one green one..." (64)
Purple: "There’s a young woman behind the desk, wearing light purple scrubs..." (74)
Black: "When the black outlines of trees overhead rustle..." (1)
Gray: "An old picnic table and two lawn chairs rest in the middle of a large gray room." (57)
Silver: "His silver hair sticks up like he’s been electrocuted..." (2)

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18% Gray by Anne Tenino
Pages 280

A,T - Author

Characters
B - Sister Benigna
M - Matt Tennimore
J - James Ayala

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Belonging by Alexa Land

Pages 293

B - Title
A,L - Author
F - Series - Firsts and Forever

Characters
G,D - Gianni Dombruso
A,T,Z - Alexzander Tillane /Nickname Zan
C - Christian
S - Shea
Y - Yoshi

Red - Page 182 ... She was dressed in her red leotard, which she'd paired with …

Orange - Page 25 ... as he crossed the room and plucked the orange sphere off the counter…

Gold - Page 26 ... The walls were lined with a couple dozen gold and platinum records…

Pink - Page 10 … giant mutant ant hill underneath my building and find Elmo's pink sparkly collar ..

White - Page 37 ... That sums up my life,” Mikey said. He was wearing a white t-shirt…

Blue - Page 32 … Mike instead of Mikey.” He began fidgeting with his dull, dark blue tie …

Green - Page 144 ... She was wearing a black hoodie with a green zombie and the …

Purple - Page 140 …a lot sexier than this one!” She was covered head-to-toe in purple Lycra...

Black - Page 34 …thought to dress down and was wearing head-to-toe black, topped…

Grey - Page 41 …as he changed from the dress pants and sweater to the grey sweats…

Silver - Page 74 ... then adjusted his silver- framed glasses exactly the same way Jo…

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany
Series: Harry Potter
Narrator: N/A
Pages: 320
Rating: Conflicted- probably about 2.5 stars
Characters: Albus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Ginny Potter, Craig Bowker Jr., Rose Granger-Weasley, Lily Potter, Karl Jenkins, Yann Fredericks, Dolores Umbridge, Vernon Dursley
Letters: H (title), J, R, T (authors), A, B, C, D, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, U, V, W, Y (characters)

Colors: No orange or grey.
Red: "In red —he was wearing Durmstrang robes." (pg. 91)
Pink: "JAMES: How can I ignore it? It’s pink!" (37)
Blue and Silver: "HARRY: Her hair —was it silver and blue?" (219)
Green: "From inside his coat he pulls a slightly squashed chocolate cake with “Happy Birthday Harry” written on it in green icing." (44)
Purple: "He needs to fly out of that maze naked on a broomstick made of purple feather dusters." (222)
Black: "BANE: There is a black cloud around your son, a dangerous black cloud." (101)
White: "Which is covered in thick white steam pouring from the HOGWARTS EXPRESS." (5)
Gold: "And around him the water glows gold." (158)

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Bookcover:
Title: School of Deaths
Series: The Scythe Wielder’s Secret
Author:Christopher Mannino
Pages:252
Date Read:8/15/16
My Rating :5 stars
Characters: Suzie, Athianasius, Hann, Jason, Billy, Connor, Frank, Luc, Kasumir, Giri
Cover Text: white
Cover Items: scythe
Colors in text:
red-It’s red eyes seemed to watch her as she approached. Loc 493
orange-The sun was setting, turning the sky orange and red, with bands of blye and violet. Loc 886
pink-They had even left her a long pink nightgown. Loc 623
green-He turned to the green eyed boy in the corner. Lco 270
purple-A long purple dress hung in the closet. Loc 552
blue-The smiling redhead with large blue glasses and the ever-present smell of cherry bubblegum was her best friend. Loc 88
brown-A lumpy brown couch sat in front of a window, next to a short table. Loc 513
black-As much as she tried to comb it, her long black hair tangled into stringy knots. Loc 45
white-A strange, fiery white light filled the area, with occasional darker squares amid the mounds. Loc 405
grey/gray-Even her gray eyes seemed to shine. Loc 389
gold-Clouds shone in shades of gold and yellow, scattered above the maze of stony mounds forming the college. Loc 654
silver -The silver doorknobs were shaped like skulls. Loc 234

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Title: The Cereal Murders
Author: Diane Mott Davidson
Translator:
Audiobook Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat
Series Name: A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery
Character First/Last/Nickname: Goldy, Arch, Julian, Tom


Colors: red, orange, pink, green, purple, blue, grey, brown, black, white, silver, gold
Item on cover: Old fashioned red lunch box, cookies, apple, noose
Cover: White
Title color: Purple
Author color: Purple

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Bookcover:
Title:The Reason
Series: The Ghost Huntress
Author:Marley Gibson
Pages:243
Date Read:8/16/16
My Rating:5 stars
Characters: Kendall, Jason, Taylor, Celia, Becca, Loreen, Donn, Emily, Ryan, Father Massimo, Shelby-Nichole
Cover Text: white
Cover Items: stairs, tree, butterflies, license plate
Colors in text:
red- I see Tallulah, an older woman with curly hair pinned back behind her ears. Chapter 4 pg 3 (sorry goofy page numbering starts over with each chapter)
orange-
pink-Her curls are brushed neatly into place around her face, and her lips shimmer slightly with a pale pink gloss. chapter 3 pg 11
green-
purple-
blue-... sizzling my nerve endings and activating my psychic vision in a sparkle of blue luminosity. chapter 5 pg 15
brown- Emily's head slumps, her long brown hair falling into her pale face. chapter 4 pg 3
black-Celia jabs her fingers into her thick black hair and scratches at her head. chapter 3 pg 4
white- I even went to the cemetery and took some shots that I'm going to convert to black-and-white. chapter 6 pg 17
grey/gray-.... and longish, shaggy black hair that's actually peppered with grays around his temples. chapter 5 pg 1
gold-
silver-Celia talked about some silver cordy thing that tethers your soul to your body. chapter 13 pg 10

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Bookcover:
Title: Pink Satin
Series:none
Author:Jennifer Greene
Pages:195
Date Read:8/16/16
My Rating:4 stars
Characters: Greer, Ryan, Marie, Daniel, Leigh
Cover Text: pink, black
Cover Items: white blanket?

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Bookcover:
Title:You Are Dead
Series: Roy Grace
Author:Peter James
Pages: The edition I have is a large print edition (they didn't have a regular print version) and it has 576 pgs
Date Read:8/17/16
My Rating:5 stars
Characters: Logan, Roy, Cleo, Glenn, Siobhan, Freya, Jacob, Norman, Ashleigh, Tanja
Cover Text: black, red
Cover Items: none
Colors in text:
red-Half the people who called were in some kind of "red mist" of nerves and confusion. pg 23
orange-
pink-I'd be earning myself a pink ticket with Janis by getting home in time to celebrate it. pg 56
green-...passing through the fronds of green weed and over the submerged remains of a miniature Greek temple...pg 43
purple-
blue-... his ID card hanging from his neck on a blue lanyard. pg 18
brown-She's a young lady in her mid-twenties, slim, pretty with long brown hair. pg 12
black-More chunks of the black asphalt were levered away.... pg 15
white-Dressed in uniform dark trousers and a short -sleeved black top, with "Police" embroidered in white .... pg 17
grey-
gold-
silver-

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Betrayed by Adrienne Wilder

Pages 221

B - Title
A,W - Author

Characters
L - Leo
S- Sol
K- Kaleb
T - The Priest (nickname)
Z - Zen
C - Cerberus

WAT Completion Post
Title: The Black Dahlia
Author: James Ellroy
Translator:
Audiobook Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Series Name: L.A. Quartet
Character First/Last/Nickname: Bucky, Lee, Georgia, Martha, Emmett, Elizabeth, Madeleine, Martha, Ramona


Colors: red, orange, pink, green, purple, blue, grey, brown, black, white, silver, gold
Item on cover: profile of woman's face
Cover: Black
Title color: Dark red
Author color: White

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Bookcover:
Title:A Stolen Life
Series:n/a
Author:Jaycee Dugard
Pages:273
Genre: non-fiction
Date Read:8/17/16
My Rating:5 stars
Characters: Jaycee, Phillip, Nancy
Cover Text: black
Cover Items: none

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Title: Girl With a Pearl Earring
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Translator:
Audiobook Narrator: Jenna Lamia
Series Name:
Character First/Last/Nickname: Johannes Vermeer, Griet, Catharina, Maertge, Pieter, Tanneke, Cornelia, Agnes, Maria


Colors: red, orange, pink, green, purple, blue, grey, brown, black, white, silver, gold
Item on cover: Girl with pearl earring and blue and yellow headdress, cityscape
Cover: Black & brown
Title color: Black
Author color: Black

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Finished 8/17/16

Character names: Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Gale, Rue, Cato, Thresh, President Snow, Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, Venia, Marvel, Glimmer, Foxface, Madge Undersee, Portia, Ceasar Flickerman

Cover: Black
Item on the cover: Gold
Title & author color: White

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Title: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Author: Irin Carmon Shana Knizhnik
Pages: 240
Series: N/A
Finished: 8/17
Rating: 4 stars
Narrator: Andi Arndt
Characters: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane, Martin, - non fiction

I updated the charaters for Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there are not many but I added two more.

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Gray Back Bad Bear by T.S. Joyce

Pages 124

G - title
T,J - author
W - Willa
M,B - Matt Barns

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Bookcover:
Title:True Blue Murder
Series:African Violet Club Mysteries
Author:Elise M. Stone
Pages:169
Date Read:8/18/16
My Rating:2 stars
Characters: Lilliana, Frank, Ted, Bette, Jim, Russ, Sarah, Mary, Chad, Willie
Cover Text: blue
Cover Items: plant

Red Glove by Holly Black
Series: Curse Workers
Narrator: Jesse Eisenberg
Pages: 325
Rating: 2.5 stars
Characters: Cassel Sharpe, Sam Yu, Daneca Wasserman, Lila Zacharov, Barron Sharpe, Ivan Zacharov, Agent Jones, Agent Hunt, Audrey, Maura, Ms. Northcutt, Greg Harmsford, Kevin LaCroix, Mr. Pascoli, Ms. Vanderveer, Jeremy Fletcher-Fiske, Megan Tilman
Letters: R (title), H, B (author), C (series), J, E (narrator), A, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, S, T, V, W, Y, Z (characters)

Colors: all
Red: "Red lights." (pg. 31)
Orange: "Traffic cones are set up, flares sparking with sizzling orange flames." (117)
Pink: "...I reach out and catch the hood of the woman’s pink velour top." (92)
Blue: "She’s at her desk, altering a new pair of bright blue gloves." (2)
Green: "...with green leather chairs resting in front of it..." (30)
Purple: "It’s a sickly shade of magenta, covered with purple fish." (98)
Black: "Her black hair is up in clips and wrapped in one of her silk scarves..." (1)
White: "Her white dress blows in the late summer wind." (3)
Gray: "He’s older, too, his short-cropped hair dusted with gray." (32)
Brown: "She’s got her curly brown hair divided into seven thick braids..." (17)
Gold: "She has on gold lame gloves and is carrying a gold clutch purse." (3)
Silver: "Her minnow silver dress swishes against the tops of her thighs like Christmas tinsel..." (1)

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Title: Green Angel
Author: Alice Hoffman
Pages: 128
Series: Green Angel
Finished: 8/18
Rating: 4 stars
Narrator: N/A
Characters: Green aka Ash, Aurora, Heather Jones, Diamond

colors in book: green, silver, white, black, brown, red, blue, gold, copper, gray, purple, orange

- shelved at science fiction 20 times....though I found it more fantasy but whatever you guys think.

Bookcover:
Title: The House of Grey - Volume 2
Author: Collin Earl
Pages: 144 pages

WAT Completion - read for mini challenge: Nonfiction book

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II by Jacques Lusseyran
Finished 8/18/16
Pages: 304

((Lmk if I need to fill out more information for you...colors, characters, etc.???))

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Title: The Twits
Author: Roald Dahl
Pages: 112
Series: N/A
Finished: 8/18
Rating: 2 stars
Narrator: Richard Ayoade
Characters: Mr. and Mrs. Twit, Muggle-Wump, Roly-Poly Bird, Fred

colors in book: purple - She was purple with rage and slashing the air with her long walking stick...

blue - ...she was high up in the blue blue sky and climbing fast.

red - It had a red and gold pattern on it.

gold - It had a red and gold pattern on it.

white - The froth made a white ring on the hairs...

yellow - ...grinning and showing her long yellow teeth

green - like a piece of maggoty green cheese or a moldy...

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WAT Completion Post
Title: Shane
Author: Jack Schaefer
Translator:
Audiobook Narrator: Grover Gardner
Series Name:
Character First/Last/Nickname: Shane, Joe, Bob, Marion


Colors:
Item on cover: Man with black hat, gun
Cover: Black & blue
Title color: Black
Author color: Black

After looking, Red Glove was also shelved as Science Fiction 14 times (though I would also say it's more fantasy, but if it counts, it counts).

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Title: The Only Pirate at the Party
Author: Lindsey Stirling
Pages: 272
Series: N/A
Finished: 8/18
Rating: 4 stars
Narrator: Lindsey Stirling
Characters: Lindsey Stirling. Gavi, Brooke, Eridge Jackson

- non fiction

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Series: N/A
Narrator: Thomas Judd
Pages: 336
Rating: 3.5 stars
Characters: Nathaniel Steepleton, Grace Carrow, Keita Mori, Akira Matsumoto, Dolly Williamson, Yuki Nakamura, H. Ito, Frederick Spindle, Bertha, Lord Leveson, Endymion Griszt, Osei Yamashita, Ryosuke
Letters: T, W (title), N, P (author), J (narrator), A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, O, R, S, Y (characters)

Colors: all
Red: "It was hot, and when he opened the stove door, the coals were dusky red." (pg. 16)
Orange: "The wet cobbles were orange with the reflections of the lamps." (46)
Pink and Grey: "...the bodice a sheaf of grey and pink pearls that sheened." (228)
Blue, Black, and White: "Under the blue sky, the castle was stark white and black." (73)
Green and Purple: "‘Green, with purple and white zigzags.’" (103)
Brown: "...because whenever he went wrong, the sound turned brown." (12)
Gold: "In the almost-summer light, the sandstone had turned gold..." (28)
Silver: "Today the silence had a silver hem." (21)

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